EDIBLE FRUIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edible fruit mean? 

• EDIBLE FRUIT (noun)
  The noun EDIBLE FRUIT has 1 sense:

1. edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

  Familiarity information: EDIBLE FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDIBLE FRUIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("edible fruit" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

garden truck; green goods; green groceries; produce (fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market)

Meronyms (parts of "edible fruit"):

peel; skin (the rind of a fruit or vegetable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edible fruit"):

aguacate; alligator pear; avocado; avocado pear (a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed)

leechee; lichee; lichi; litchee; litchi; litchi nut; lychee (Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried)

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)

jaboticaba (tough-skinned purple grapelike tropical fruit grown in Brazil)

hog plum; wild plum (fruit of the wild plum of southern United States)

hog plum; yellow mombin (yellow oval tropical fruit)

mombin (purplish tropical fruit)

guava (tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies)

elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)

date (sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed)

dragon's eye; longanberry (Asian fruit similar to litchi)

tamarind; tamarindo (large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys)

mammee; marmalade plum; sapote (brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet)

sapodilla; sapodilla plum; sapota (tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp)

mango (large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed)

mangosteen (two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples)

Japanese plum; loquat (yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies)

Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi fruit (fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh)

genipap; genipap fruit (a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind)

garambulla (small berrylike fruit)

monkey bread; sour gourd (African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp)

sour gourd (acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds)

sorb; sorb apple (acid gritty-textured fruit)

rose apple (fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections)

pulasan; pulassan (fruit of an East Indian tree similar to the rambutan but sweeter)

rambotan; rambutan (pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines)

quince (aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves)

native peach; quandang; quandong; quantong (red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam)

Barbados gooseberry; blade apple (small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies)

genip; Spanish lime (round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes)

prickly pear (round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti)

pomegranate (large globular fruit having many seeds with juicy red pulp in a tough brownish-red rind)

plumcot (hybrid between plum and apricot)

pear (sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties)

medlar (a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste)

medlar (crabapple-like fruit used for preserves)

marang (tropical fruit from the Philippines having a mass of small seeds embedded in sweetish white pulp)

mamey; mammee; mammee apple (globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh)

citrous fruit; citrus; citrus fruit (any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions)

ananas; pineapple (large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated)

fig (fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried)

dried fruit (fruit preserved by drying)

plum (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)

pitahaya (highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach)

nectarine (a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin)

peach (downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh)

apricot (downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach)

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit (large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin)

anchovy pear; river pear (West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled)

carissa plum; natal plum (edible scarlet plumlike fruit of a South African plant)

ceriman; monstera (tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor)

carambola; star fruit (deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert)

lansa; lansat; lanseh; lanset (East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit)

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

windfall (fruit that has fallen from the tree)

cling; clingstone (fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit)

grape (any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters)

feijoa; pineapple guava (dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves)

durian (huge fruit native to southeastern Asia 'smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts)

ackee; akee (red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe)

ketembilla; kitambilla; kitembilla (maroon-purple gooseberry-like fruit of India having tart-sweet purple pulp used especially for preserves)

kai apple (South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots; used for pickles and preserves)

papaya (large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh)

papaw; pawpaw (fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples)

custard apple (the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp)

freestone (fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit)

coco plum; cocoa plum; icaco (plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American)

cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

melon (any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh)

canistel; eggfruit (ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies)

jack; jackfruit; jak (immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted)

breadfruit (a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts)

passion fruit (egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines; used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks)

banana (elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh)

 Context examples 

The sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed.

(Date Fruit, NCI Thesaurus)